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The new autobiographical book by Denis Manning takes the reader on an incredible, 60 year journey that spans three continents. Told in Denis’s own words, the book recounts the triumphs and setbacks in Denis’s lifelong quest to design and build the world’s fastest motorcycles. The book is also packed with historical photographs, many of which have never been seen before. The story that Denis has to share is arguably one of the most fascinating and impressive stories in the history of motorsports racing.
Includes bonus DVD Almost 2 hours of never before seen interviews, videos and historic photographs.
The idea to dedicate a book to Giorgio Pianta was born on the occasion of the delivery of two large boxes from his photographic archive, organized “randomly” by his wife, for a “rearrangement mission”: an immense job, plenty of material to examine, rich in quantity and quality. A round up over more than thirty years of Italian motorsport, a lot of photos of the most varied cars, driven with great expertise along with his boundless passion and irrepressible enthusiasm.
So, Sergio Limone and Luca Gastaldi collected the most meaningful images in chronological order into a volume, to share with whoever knew him, in person or just for his fame.
Loving cars and racing all his life, Steve McQueen realized his dream in 1970 to create a film featuring one of the oldest and most prestigious endurance races in the world. And the movie Le Mans became a cult masterpiece for a whole generation of car racing fans.
45 years later, an unknown enthusiast decided to live the same dream. Sandro Garbo and his team invested a lot of effort, making sure that every detail was carefully crafted and depicted the story at its best.
Called Steve McQueen in Le Mans, it retells the film’s story in colorful, rich illustration. Sandro Garbo, the graphic novel’s Belgian creator, captured the high-intensity action of the movie in page after page of gorgeous illustrations.
64 Pages
Luxury hard cover |
Size 13.6″ × 10.1″ |
Tribute Edition part I (part II will be released in 2018 )
This is the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini, told through hundreds of unpublished and rare color and black-and-white photographs. Unlike other publications, which have illustrated the Space Race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors’ private library of more than 125,000 high-resolution photos of the first two U.S. manned space programs from 1961 to 1966.
Collected over a lifetime from public and private sources–including NASA archives, fellow photo collectors, retired NASA and news photographers, and auction houses–the images document American space missions of the Cold War era more comprehensively than ever before. Devoting a chapter to each flight for the first time, the authors also include richly-detailed captions, providing new insight into one of America’s greatest triumphs.Foreword by Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.).
When American Cars were a Way of Life
This book will allow you to enter the magical world of the historic American automobile with the aid of outstanding period photographs. Over 450 pages containing more than 600 pictures, selected by the author with informative captions, capturing moments in life associated with cars made in the USA. A fascinating tour using the automobile to illustrate American society, from the ’30s to the end of the ’70s, creating an exciting and unforgettable journey through time. A picture is worth a thousand words. With this in mind, this book illustrates an unforgettable bygone age. Retro Graphic will immerse you in the greatest history of the American automobile, from the 1930s to the end of the ’70s, with fascinating and previously unpublished photographs of the era. Retro Graphic is much more than simply a collection of photos, it is an atrtistic fresco of the US automobile seen through society at the time. A picturesque historical trip through the last century, which thanks to American cars has been impressed on our collective memories. When Detroit was known as the centre of the world, the American automobile was a way of life. A time when the car was a triumph of human style and design. When it was part of the choreography of the city streets and the landscape. When it became the indispensable co-star in films of the era. The American automobile: when it was an iconic companion through every stage of life. Title: RETRO GRAPHIC Dimensions: 24,5×30,5 cm Text: English and Italian Author: Gian Paolo Varetto Editor: Edizioni GP Pages: 450 Photos: over 600 b/w and colour Publication
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of John Surtees becoming Formula 1 World Champion, in 1964, this long-awaited book is a photographic memoir by the only man to have won World Championships on motorcycles and in cars. Containing nearly 300 photographs from Surtees’ own collection as well as from the world’s finest motorsport picture libraries, this major book presents a complete visual record of Surtees’ life accompanied by fascinating commentary written in collaboration with co-author Mike Nicks. Royalties from sales of the book will go to the Henry Surtees Foundation, which was set up to honour the memory of John’s son Henry, who was killed in a freak accident at Brands Hatch in 2009.
• The early years (up to 1952): a childhood around motorcycle racing, apprenticeship with Vincent, then racing a Vincent Grey Flash.
• Getting established (1953–55): Moving on to ride mainly Manx Nortons, he did 86 races in one year, and in 1955 achieved his first grand prix win, in the 250cc Ulster GP on an NSU.
• The glory years (1956–60): dominating top-level motorcycle racing for five years with Italian team MV Agusta, taking seven World Championship titles on 500cc and 350cc bikes.
• The remarkable year of bikes and cars (1960): overlapping his last year of motorcycle racing with 17 car races, including four F1 World Championship events, the second of them – the British GP – bringing a second place with Lotus.
• Ferrari driver (1963–66): established in cars, he joined Ferrari, winning his first race – the Sebring 12 Hours for sports cars – and the following year becoming F1 World Champion.
• CanAm champion (1966): after recovery from a huge crash in a Lola T70 sports car and acrimonious departure from Ferrari, he bounced back in North America to win the spectacular CanAm series.
• Turning Japanese (1967–68): Honda invited Surtees to develop and drive its F1 cars, with a two-year programme in which victory in the Italian GP at Monza – Ferrari territory – was the highlight.
• Becoming a constructor (1970–78): going into single-seater racing, including F1, with Team Surtees and cars of his own manufacture; good results in F1 were sparse but Mike Hailwood won the European F2 Championship in 1972.
• The latter years (1978 onwards): fully active on the historic scene as a restorer and driver of motorcycles and cars, then nurturing son Henry’s career until the tragic accident.
COMING EARLY 2024
Nash-Healey – A Grand Alliance examines in exquisite and exacting detail the story behind America’s first postwar sports car and the unique Anglo-American partnership between Nash and Healey that gave it life, which became an international triumvirate with the later involvement of famed Italian coachbuilder Pinin Farina.
Focusing on the lives and careers of the men behind these fantastic machines, this book dives into their prior accomplishments, before reviewing the design and development of the Nash-Healey roadsters and coupes. It also explores the marque’s incredible competition record at iconic races like the Mille Miglia, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Alpine and Monte Carlo rallies. Lavishly illustrated with almost 1,200 images, most never before published, including several from Donald Healey’s own personal photographic collection, this book is essential for all Nash-Healey enthusiasts and fans of sports cars from the breed’s golden era.
- 2-volume set in slipcase
- 800 pages
- 1,192 illustrations
- Foreword by Donald Osborne
Bunker Hill is the highest point of downtown Los Angeles, both literally and figuratively. Its circle of life has created a continuous saga of change, each chapter rich with captivating characters, structures, and culture. In Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir, historian Nathan Marsak tells the story of the Hill, from the district’s inception in the mid-19th century to its present day. Once home to wealthy Angelenos living in LA’s “first suburb,” then the epicenter of the city’s shifting demographics and the shadow and vice of an urban underbelly, Bunker Hill survived its attempted erasure and burgeoned as a hub of arts, politics, business, and tourism.
As compelling as the story of the destruction of Bunker Hill is―with all the good intentions and bad results endemic to city politics―it was its people who made the Hill at once desirable and undesirable. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill―time after historic time.
Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak’s analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment.
With more than 250 photographs―many in color―as well as maps and vintage ephemera to tell his dramatic visual story, Marsak lures us into Bunker Hill Los Angeles and shares its lost world, then guides us to its new one.
The dynamic duo are back! Hot from the success of their first collaboration, “Admission 7/6′ “, authors Tim Beavis and Guy Loveridge are releasing a second book based on the personal photographs taken by Mr E.V. Starr, the real “star” of the show. This time they are covering images taken by him between 1970 and 1974, not just covering Grand Prix racing, but also dabbling into other forms of the sport.
For those that missed the first book, Mr Starr was a keen photographer and motorsport fan, and compiled a collection of images intended for his own enjoyment. He did not have the privilege of press accreditation but had the knack of being in the right place at the right time, whether with “a nod and a wink” to the steward on the gate, or just working out the best places to stand. Therefore, to the photographic purist, some of the shots will not be technically perfect; however, what they do show is detail that would otherwise be missed and lost to the mists of time.
Messrs Beavis and Loveridge have been able to raid the information stored at the Silverstone Museum to flesh out the details and stories connected to the images and bring to life a different era of the sport, much of which we in the modern day will never get to experience. And also, to get character stories with personalities of the day, with personal accounts from Jackie Oliver, Mike Wilds, and the late John Surtees, and one of the early grid girls, Sue Lehmann, who went from being a beauty consultant for Yardley to working on the grid with the BRM team at events, and consequently had time with many of the greats of the time.
With hillclimb, historic racing, and lower category race formulas as well as motorcycles being covered, there is something for everyone to appreciate. The photographs and text are cleanly presented, making each page turn feel like opening Pandora’s box of secrets, and it will be so easy to sit and lose time going from image to image, from cover to cover.
Limited edition of 400 copies
The 2nd graphic novel by Bob Neyret, this time his famous collection of rally adventures with the most faithful of his companions: Jacques Terramorsi.
English version of the hit comic book “PAIRE D’AS FOR A DS”, special edition YACCO 100 years
Invited by D.S , the new brand, for the inauguration of the Peking D.S SHOP on the 60TH anniversary of Citroen DS in 2015, Rally driver Bob Neyret meets, on the flight, Sophie a young motor sport journalist who seems to know nothing about the golden age of the D.S, nor the close link between the driver and his car. He begins telling her about his life through very original anecdotes, from his early days in France to the major international rallies.
But young Sophie can’t believe her ears … But who are really this famous Bob and his Terra, his co-driver?
See for yourself!
When Philip Kohler left his native South Australia in 1955, his sights were firmly set on the UK, yet his continued appetite for travel eventually led him to Northern Rhodesia – a move that would ultimately see him fulflil a deeply held desire to complete a solo crossing of the Sahara desert.
With only his thoughts and the mechanical outpourings of his Series II Land Rover for company, Kohler spent three years traversing his way across a remarkable continent that was in the midst of revolution and change – documenting his journey with his trusted Leica camera – before arriving back in London in the latter half of 1962.
The adventure provided not just new experiences, but also shaped the rest of his professional life – his photographic ability, as well as a chance encounter with John Wayne, resulting in a hugely successful career in the international film industry. Lavishly illustrated with the beautiful photographs that he took along the way, and written by award-winning author Martin Port, this new book from Porter Press International tells the story of Philip Kohler and his trans-African Land Rover.
Volume 2 of the Encyclopedia 727 about one of the most famous and important airplanes in history, and Boeing’s first bestseller, best-selling commercial jet for more than two decades. The Boeing 727 is an aviation icon! Its grandiose story is told in detail in Encyclopedia 727. For the first time in history, an entire encyclopedia dedicated to a single plane!
The 6 volumes will tell the complete story in 2,640 pages, with more than 3,200 photoreal profiles and exclusive to the 727 Encyclopedia, showing the plane in every painting in the airlines that have operated it in the more than 59 years of use of the model until today. All books have digital content with access via QR code and the sections will receive updates on the data of the aircraft in operation, which can be downloaded in PDF and printed, keeping your 727 Encyclopedia up to date.
In volume 2 you will learn about the different models of the 727, with details of each variant of the factory Boeing 727 and the modifications received to extend its operational life, testimonials from pilots and other professionals about the trijet, the most unusual stories that happened with the model , an account of all the accidents involving the device and more: the 727 in the media, flight simulators, statistics, preserved planes, in addition to the production list and a complete chronology of the model’s history. Finally, a section dedicated to plastic models and collectors, with the 727 at scale.
Volume 2 has 376 pages.
Sections of Volume 2: 1. MODELS & DESIGNS, 2. THE 727 AND ITS FRIENDS, 3. FANTASTIC STORIES, 4. ACCIDENTS, 5. THE 727 IN THE MEDIA, 6. THE 727 AT SCALE, 7. THE 727 IN THE SIMULATORS, 8 The 727 IN STATISTICS, 9. THE 727 PRESERVED, 10. PRODUCTION LIST, 11. CHRONOLOGY.
Details: more than 100 photos (some exclusively colorized for the book), more than 259 photoreal profiles of 727’s, 370 artwork, maps, infographics, 71 tables and 149 QR codes with external content, including videos, documents and miscellaneous content about the trijet.
America’s Hundred Thousand covers in detail the eleven U.S. fighter aircraft types produced just before and during World War II – with a combined production total of just over 100,000 aircraft. Covered are the Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning, P-39 Airacobra, Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk/Kittyhawk/Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, North American P-51 Mustang, Northrop P-61 Black Widow, and the Navy F2A – Buffalo, F4F – Wildcat, F4U – Corsair, and F6F – Hellcat fighters. The text is supplemented by more than 650 photographs, and 200 tables and graphs. Fighter production figures are also included. After an introduction of each type, a heavily illustrated overview of earlier inter-war production from 1920-on, along with a discussion and illustration of wartime experimental types, is provided. A lengthy section considering several technical factors affecting fighter performance follows. These include engine models, supercharger types, propellers, aerodynamic thrust, lift and drag, aircraft weight, balance, stability and control, and armament. America’s Hundred Thousand also provides details of each U.S. World War II production fighter in terms of models and changes, numbers produced, and major engine and aircraft performance aspects – in tabular and graphical form – details of weights, discussion of handling qualities and general comments, along with detailed descriptions containing many illustrations of aircraft structures and systems showing the technology of that time. In addition a comprehensive week-to-week and month-to-month chronology of development and wartime combat operational life for each fighter is provided, including many photos. This study concludes with comparisons of the eleven types in terms of program milestones, aircraft drag, power available at various altitudes, speed, climb, rolling and turning, acceleration, and diving performance, as well as general evaluations by World War II pilots.
Car photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. Predictably slick, hi-spec images on the front pages of glossy magazines, or huge blow-ups on giant billboards which have one designed aim: to sell a lifestyle. But our relationship with cars is so much more meaningful than these images might suggest. Like the camera, the car has changed the way we explore the world. With cars came road trips, and with road trips came some of the most important photographic documentaries of our time. A car is a vehicle not just for transport but for our hopes, desires and dreams. In Smoke and Mirrors, a selection of world-renowned and up-and-coming photographers come together to pay tribute to the car. From Nick Turpin’s images of ‘donut’ skid marks, Todd Hido’s painterly landscapes taken through wet windscreens and William Green’s shots of sleeping Tokyo taxi drivers, these photographs display cars at their most playful, introspective and meaningful, reminding us that there is more to them than just metal and machinery – for cars are emotionally intertwined with the lives we live.
Fabled automobile designer Louis Coatalen emerges from this new biographical portrait as a man of French charm and wit—but also as one determined to obtain success by any means necessary. In Louis Coatalen: Engineering Impresario of Humber, Sunbeam, Talbot, Darracq, readers witness Coatalen’s perseverance and certain lack of scruples, as well as his ability to recognize a good idea and recruit talented individuals to aid in his visions. These characteristics, combined with undeniable leadership skills, have made him a major figure in British motoring history.
Historian Oliver Heal provides new research into Coatalen’s family and his ties across the automobile design world. He shows Coatalen’s motor racing successes, as well as his failures: his birth in Brittany, his training as an engineer in France, his rise in the British motor industry, and his accomplishments at Humber and Sunbeam, important pre-World War I carmakers. Heal also tells Coatalen’s personal racing story about how his teams were the first British car to win a Grand Prix, later breaking the World Land Speed Records on five occasions. Eventually returning to France, Coatalen helped build up Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Company and devoted much time and money to developing a powerful, though ultimately unsuccessful, diesel airplane engine. Coatalen’s complicated private life—involving four wives, drug addiction, and questionable investments—are also examined for the first time. Accompanied by 250 illustrations, including many previously unpublished photographs, this new biography provides a roaring picture of a British car-making legend.
Limited Edition Re-Print
AMERICAN CAR CULTURE AT ITS VIBRANT BEST
Wednesday night was “Cruise Night” in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles. The stretch on Van Nuys Boulevard between Ventura Boulevard on the southern end, and well past Sherman Way to the north, teemed with kids and cars from all over Southern California on Wednesday nights. It was a terrific place to both see and be seen, and to show off your ride as well.Gas was cheap, times were great, and the boulevard hummed with life during the evenings. Even the «draft» during the Vietnam War did not dampen the street scene. By 1972, the year Rick McCloskey went to Van Nuys to shoot his series of photographs, the culture on the boulevard had become an amalgamation of divergent lifestyles, automobiles – used and new – and some very different «looks» and styles. There were «tribes» of van kids – surfers mostly – low-riders, muscle cars, street racers, Volkswagen owners, and many more, and of course, thousands of young people. The idea of «retro» had arrived as well, with some young people emulating the look and style of the 1950s. Of course, there were individuals who had to be there for work. In making these images, Rick McCloskey set about portraying the young people, their cars, and the iconic background settings. Today, young people no longer have anything similar to the past boulevard gathering places, where so many people can enjoy «just being there» together. Akin to starlight still trickling in from a long vanished world, these photographic images are what we have left
Hardcover
132 pages,
118 duotone plates with a text by the photographer
